photography and the left

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LEFT
PROGRAM*
Day 1 Thursday 16th June
9:30
Registration
10:00
Welcome and Opening Session
10:15-11:00
Film Screening: Mined Soil (2013/14) followed by discussion with Keynote Speaker Filipa César (artist/filmmaker)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Paper Sessions
Panel 1
Panel 2
HISTORY, PROPANDA AND POLITICAL IMAGES
Chaired by Margarida Medeiros
THE WORKERS AND THE LEFT
Chaired by Lorena Travassos
Caught in the Act: Justice, Illusion, and Photography on the Une révolte aux sels d’argent. Idéologie de gauche et
renouvellement esthétique au sein des photo-clubs
Victorian Stage Daniel A. Novak University of Mississippi
français (1945-1975) Guillaume Blanc, Université Paris 1
Giuseppe Garibaldi, national hero and symbol of the left:
O 1º de Maio de 1974 n’O Século Ilustrado – uma narrativa
creation of his myth through his photographic portraits
imagética. Ana Catarina Caldeira Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Annalea Tunesi, University of Leeds, UK
Progresso, anticlericalismo e modéstia Nuno Pinheiro
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Break
Deslocamentos conceituais da fotografia documental e da
representação do proletariado Ludimilla Carvalho Wanderlei &
José Afonso da Silva Junior PPGCOM – UFPE, Brasil
14:30 – 16:00
Paper Sessions
Panel 3
Panel 4
DOCUMENTARY ISSUES: REVISIONS AND HISTORICAL
LANDSCAPE AND THE OTHER
APPROACHES
Chaired by Paulo Catrica
Chaired by Patricia Leal
Reinventing Documentary (Again) Some Notes on the
Pragmatism of Photography Jan Babnik - editor in chief of To live as they live: Portraits of the Portuguese rural
Membrana
interior by artist Cristina Rodrigues
Inês Jorge, FCSH/UNL
Between the Gallery and the Street: the 1980s 'New
Documentary' Movement
Viagem em Portugal: um território que (se) reflete (n)a
Andreia Alves de Oliveira: (CREAM), University of Westminster, crise Filippo De Tomasi, FCSH/UNL
London
Espelho Nativo – dez anos depois Philipi Bandeira, Brasil.
Photography, Irreality and the Document Miguel Faleiro,
investigador independente
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
Keynote Speaker Jorge Ribalta (artist, curator, researcher)
17:30 – 18:00
Final Discussions
20:00
Conference Dinner
Day 2 Friday 17th June
10:15-11:00
Keynote Speaker Jacinto Godinho (journalist)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Paper Sessions
Panel 5
Panel 6
STRUGLLE AND RESISTANCE
Chaired by Margarida Medeiros
DISCOURSIVE ANNALYSIS
Chaired by Lorena Travassos
Images of freedom, images of freeing
Photography as
The War at Home John van Aitken (University of Central
evidence and social injustice in Taryn Simon’s
Lancashire) & Jane Brake (Manchester Metropolitan University)
photography Arianna Lodeserto
Photographie et marginalité : stratégies de visibilité,
Immortality, The Remnants of the Vietnam and American
puissance d’insoumission Maira Mora Université Paris 1
War, folhas impregnadas da guerra no trabalho
fotográfico de Binh Danh Andrea Bracher
O rosto perdido: notas sobre uma busca Carolina Junqueira dos
Santos, Universidade de São Paulo
Presente ausente: invisibilidade em questão nas
fotoperformances de Ana Mendieta Olga da Costa Lima
Wanderley, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00
Paper Sessions
Panel 7
Panel 8
VISUAL DILLEMMAS: LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD
Chaired by Lorena Travassos
VISUAL FACTS AND MATTERS
Chaired by Patricia Leal
We don’t need a gallery to put these pictures in our head,
Rua Sergipe para o desenvolvimento de Londrina e suas
Louie Palu’s Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock
características peculiares Celio de Costa, Universidade Estadual
Mining Belt Siobhan Angus, University, Toronto
de Londrina
No limite da representação: entre a informação e a arte
From Where I am Looking At You (I Can not See You) Carlos Sandra Maria Lúcia Pereira Gonçalves Universidade Federal do Rio
Jimenez, Royal College of Art
Grande do Sul – Brasil.
Antartica : a Critical Imaginary Anne Noble
Ideology of Negative Witold Kanicki, University of Arts in Poznan
(Poland)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30
Keynote Speaker Steve Edwards The Open University, UK
17:30 – 18:00
Final Discussions
* A film screening will run parallel to the Conference and begin daily at 10:00 am and at 14:00 pm.
** The film screening will begin daily at 10:00 am and at 14:00 pm
Film Screening
Revolutionary collectives
Kino Pravda, Dziga Vertov, 1922, 17'
Drifters, John Grierson, 1929, 50'
Industrial Britain, Robert Flaherty y John Grierson, 1933, 21'
Coal Face, Alberto Calvancanti, 1935, 12'
Housing problems, E.H. Ansteey y Arthur Elton, 1935, 13'
Night Mail, Harry Watt y Basil Wright, 1936, 24'
Film and Photo League.
Worker's Newsreel, Unemployment Special, 1931, 7'
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre, 1932, 7'
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington 1932, 1932, 18'
America Today & The World in Review, 1932-1934, 11'
New Deal
The river, Pare Lorentz, 1937, 31'
The land, Robert Flaherty, 1939-1942, 51'
De Bruge, Joris Ivens, 1928, 11'
Philips radio, Joris Ivens, 1931, 36'
The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens. , 1937.
Social
Feltham Sings, Brian Hill, 2002, 50’
The Battle of Orgreave, Jeremy Deller, 2001,
Cinema and Revolution
Que farei eu com esta espada, João César Monteiro, 1975, 65’
Revolução, Ana Hatherly, 1975
Video en la Puna: el viaje de Valdez, Jorge La Ferla, Argentina, 1994, 19’